Elements Quotes - Page 19

• The one great element in continuing the success of an offensive is maintaining the momentum.

  George C. Marshall

  Maintaining, Momentum, Offensive

  Speech to the Overseas Press Club, March 1, 1945.

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• The first rule of world-building is available physics, which basically means that if you want it to feel real, it has to follow the same rules as this world, from gravity to how human behaviour works. If you have a fantasy element that doesnt obey the laws of physics, make sure that it has a fantasy explanation.

  Trudi Canavan

  Real, Mean, Law

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• I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

  Trudi Canavan

  Supernatural Elements, Stories, Literature

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• If you study carefully, you will see that Buddhism is based on reason. There is an element of flexibility inherent in it, which is not found in any other religion.

  B. R. Ambedkar

  Buddhism, Study, Reason

  "The Buddha and His Dhamma". Book by Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, 1957.

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• All the elements, whose aid man calls in, will sometimes become big masters.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Power, Men, Sometimes

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• The number of strokes to the inch controls the pitch of the note: the more, the higher the pitch; the fewer, the lower the pitch, the size of the stroke controls the loudness... the tone quality is the most difficult element to control, it is made by the shape of the strokes.

  Norman McLaren

  Numbers, Quality, Shapes

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• Before success comes patience... when we add to our accomplishments the element of hard work over a long period of time, we'll place a far greater value on the outcome. When we are patient, we'll have a greater appreciation of our success.

  John Wooden

  Appreciation, Hard Work, Long

  Fellowship of Christian Athletes, John Wooden (2010). “The Greatest Coach Ever: Timeless Wisdom and Insights of John Wooden”, p.20, Gospel Light Publications

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• My work at R.E.I. was incredibly fulfilling and rewarding, especially the stewardship elements of it, the ability to connect young people to public lands close to home.

  Sally Jewell

  Home, Land, People

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• I try when I'm writing to fill my head and my ears with all sorts of stuff and then let it settle and filter through. At a certain point it seems like fruitless activity because you're taking a lot of time and not seeming to get anything. And then, slowly, you realize you've actually digested elements and that your thinking is being freed up and the way you build up compositions is changed as a result of what you've been listening to.

  Peter Gabriel

  Writing, Thinking, Listening

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• Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.

  Confucius

  Humanity, Characteristics, Benevolence

  Confucius, Mencius (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.269

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• The Lake of Dreams grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a novel.

  Kim Edwards

  Dream, Lakes, Years

  "Kim Edwards Talks about The Lake of Dreams". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. February 20, 2011.

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• There was a little element of feeling like a cow.

  Adam Gilchrist

  Feelings, Littles, Cows

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• It's taken me years to embrace the softer elements of who I am and let that shine some.

  Shelby Lynne

  Taken, Who I Am, Years

  "Shelby Lynne: On Vulnerability and Not Flinching". Interview with Deborah Stambler, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 20, 2012.

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• I begin with the premise that behavior is an incredibly important element in medicine. Peoples habits, their willingness to quit smoking, their willingness to take steps to avoid transmission of HIV, are all behavioral questions.

  Harold E. Varmus

  Medicine, Smoking, Important

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• The thing that all sports have in common is that they have no fantasy elements, which is a little weird.

  Jesse Schell

  Sports, Littles, Common

  "Gaming academic Jesse Schell expounds on chocofication and motivating players to play and pay (interview)". Interview with Dean Takahashi, venturebeat.com. February 10, 2013.

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• The lust and attraction are often a given in a romance novel - I want to dig into the elements of true friendship that form a foundation for a solid, gonna-last-forever romantic relationship.

  Suzanne Brockmann

  True Friend, Forever, Romance

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• From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment.

  Garry Disher

  Teaching, Writing, Years

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• Green chemistry is replacing our industrial chemistry with nature's recipe book. It's not easy, because life uses only a subset of the elements in the periodic table. And we use all of them, even the toxic ones.

  Janine Benyus

  Book, Toxic, Use

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• In a storm of struggles, I have tried to control the elements, clasp the fist tight so as to protect self and happiness. But stress can be an addiction, and worry can be our lunge for control, and we forget the answer to this moment is always yes because of Christ.

  Ann Voskamp

  Stress, Struggle, Self

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• By combining elements such as hypnosis, magic, neurolinguistic programming and psychology, I can make it appear that I can hack into people's brains.

  Keith Barry

  Hypnosis, People, Psychology

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• The nation as such is not a large subject that has needs, that works, practices economy, and consumes. . . . Thus the phenomena of “national economy” . . . are, rather, the results of all the innumerable individual economic efforts in the nation and . . . must also be theoretically interpreted in this light. . . .Whoever wants to understand theoretically the phenomena of “national economy” . . . must for this reason attempt to go back to their true elements, to the singular economies in the nation, and to investigate the laws by which the former are built up from the latter.

  Ralph Raico

  Light, Law, Practice

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• When youre in a fighter jet and theres a dark layer of clouds with just one blue hole with the sun going through it, you shoot for that hole. You go vertical into the light, and suddenly, instead of gray and dark, its light and blue. You are totally connected with the elements. You are in another world.

  Yves Rossy

  Dark, Clouds, Light

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• There is an element in which anxiety co-represents with aspects of my personality I wouldnt want to give up. It allows you to have foresight. I may not be as empathetic. Its hard to figure out the difference between pathology and personality.

  Scott Stossel

  Giving Up, Differences, Personality

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• The whole plan of extermination was nothing less than a cold blooded, calculated political measure, having for its object the annihilation of a superior element in the population, which might prove troublesome, and to this must be added the motive of greed.

  Fridtjof Nansen

  Greed, Political, Might

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• We can trace the elements. They were forged in the centers of high-mass stars that went unstable at the ends of their lives, they exploded, scattered their enriched contents across the galaxy, sprinkled into gas clouds that then collapsed and formed stars and planets and life.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Stars, Science, Clouds

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